date:Jul 17, 2014
Customers of major UK supermarkets used 8.3 billion single-use plastic carrier bags last year. This is an increase of 3.2 per cent on 2012, when 8.1 billion bags were used.
The various UK governments tasked the recycling agency WRAP with monitoring plastic-bag usage in 2006. Since WRAP began record-keeping, there has been a decrease of 32 per cent from 12.2 billion, however, it is worrying that use has risen for the fourth year in a row.
The British Retail Consortium (BRC) said that the small